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Series
Chesapeake Shores novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
As the only child of a single mom, Jenny Collins wanted nothing more than to be part of a large, rambunctious family like the O'Briens. Ironically, though, when her mother married into that family, Jenny found herself feeling more like an outsider than ever. Now, after years in Nashville as an established songwriter, Jenny's drawn back to Chesapeake Shores to collaborate on a Christmas production...and to make peace with the past. As if that's not...
43) Score
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary bringing Hollywood's elite composers together to give viewers a privileged look inside the musical challenges and creative secrecy of the world's most international music genre: the film score. Features interviews with nearly 60 composers, directors, orchestrators, studio musicians, producers, recording artists, studio executives, agents, and journalists.
44) Summer bird blue
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Language
English
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Description
After her sister and songwriting partner, Lee, dies in an automobile accident, seventeen-year-old Rumi is sent to Hawaii with an aunt she barely knows while she and her mother grieve separately.
45) Beethoven's skull: dark, strange, and fascinating tales from the world of classical music and beyond
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Language
English
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Description
Beethoven's Skull is an unusual and often humorous survey of the many strange happenings in the history of Western classical music. Proving that good music and shocking tabloid-style stories make excellent bedfellows, it presents tales of revenge, murder, curious accidents, and strange fates that span more than two thousand years. Highlights include:
A cursed song that kills those who hear it
A composer who lovingly cradles the head of Beethoven's...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Arky Levin has reached a creative dead end. Guilty and restless after an unexpected separation from his wife, almost by chance he stumbles upon an art exhibit that will change his life. Based on a real piece of performance art, the installation that the fictional Arky Levin discovers is inexplicably powerful. Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art sit across a table from artist Marina Abramović for as short or long a period of time as they choose....
47) Tchaikovsky
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century Russian composer with emphasis on his childhood and early musical training.
48) I, Vivaldi
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., music ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A dynamic picture-book biography of the Italian composer who as a young man put his musical training ahead of his studies for the priesthood. Includes an historical note, musical score, and glossary
49) Scarlatti's cat
Author
Language
English
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Description
Reveals how Pulcinella, a cat, contributed to one of the most popular symphonies written by eighteenth-century composer Domenico Scarlatti, and the consequences for the pampered pet.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xvii, 445 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"HANDLE The definitive, investigative biography of jazz legend Dave Brubeck ("Take Five") DESCRIPTION In 2003, music journalist Philip Clark was granted unparalleled access to jazz legend Dave Brubeck. Over the course of ten days, he shadowed the Dave Brubeck Quartet during their extended British tour, recording an epic interview with the bandleader. Brubeck opened up as never before, disclosing his unique approach to jazz; the heady days of his "classic"...
53) Aaron Copland
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his 1960s-1970s heyday, Rod McKuen was a phenomenally popular singer-songwriter as well as the bestselling poet in publishing history. To his legions of fans around the world, he was a voice of compassion and healing, as much a prophet as an author/entertainer. McKuen songs like "If You Go Away" and "Jean" earned him massive hits, while books like Listen to the Warm sold millions of copies. McKuen's huge sales and devoted following didn't stop...
55) Becoming Bach
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Language
English
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Description
Highlights the life and achievements of the eighteenth-century German composer and musician, and examines the development of his most important compositions.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A struggling composer senses a chance to get back on track and rekindle an old flame-even if it means hiding the truth of his failures-in this charming romance inspired by a historical figure from the bestselling author of Freedom's Song"--
Four years after leaving town to make a name for himself as a composer, Gilbert Baty has returned temporarily to Falke, Kansas. Now, he's trying to keep everyone from learning the truth about his disastrous years...
Author
Publisher
Masterworks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (53 min., 34 sec.) : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Musical drama film directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda in his feature directorial debut. Written by Steven Levenson, it is based on the stage musical of the same name by Jonathan Larson, a semi-autobiographical story about Larson's writing a musical to enter the industry.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich--Julian Barnes's first novel since his best-selling, Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending. 1936: Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, shot dead on the spot), he reflects on...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Through the years of success in Hollywood composing music for the world's most lauded films, Chris always promised his wife they would return to the Yorkshire Dales one day. Now, after his wife's death, Chris feels he must not forget his promise. Back in the Dales, he rents an isolated house that will allow him the space to come to terms with his grief and the quiet to allow him to compose his piano sonata. But when he finds that the house was the...
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